A Newt?!? I Got Better...

This week's title will either be really easy to guess or you'll be completely baffled. But I'm finally feeling better and am not battling a violent cough at night. I've found it's much easier to sleep.

Big news this week, Eduardo got baptized! After working with him for almost my entire time here in La Joya, from thinking he'd never come to church, to helping him quit his bad habits, to helping him find a job, and resetting his baptismal date five times, the progress he's made is truly a miracle. He just about gave me a heart attack when, on the day of his baptism, he texted us that he couldn't be at church and therefore couldn't be baptized. He then sent us a video of himself in the chapel. That vato really got us there. El gran bromeador sí mismo.

The only sad part is that his son Luiz wasn't able to be baptized because his mom thought it was too soon for him. But he already passed his interview and really wants to be baptized, so hopefully next week. Definitely would appreciate prayers to soften his mom's heart to let him be baptized.

This week was a lot of work to get Eduardo baptized, but it was so worth all the effort. Also, I actually don't feel lost with Spanish! It's coming along, and I can actually express myself and understand what's being said. It's making my English grammar kind of bad, but no me importa!

Real quick, I want to share something I found that I love in the scriptures. In Mosiah in the Book of Mormon, Alma and his people are all baptized and are a super righteous people but are captured and enslaved by the Lamanites anyway. They received this trial not because they were disobedient but to show them that God comforts His people in their difficulties and delivers us. Throughout all they went through, Alma was faithful and advised the people to be as well.
Mosiah 23:27 says, "But Alma went forth and stood among them, and exhorted them that they should not be frightened, but that they should remember the Lord their God and he would deliver them."

My advice and hope for all of you is that when difficulties come your way, despite your obedience, you will be able to see how the Lord will deliver you and show His love for you.

I wish you all the best!
-Elder Teeples

Last week's email: "Well yes, but actually no"
Movie: Pirates! - that funny claymation movie made by the same people who made Wallace and Gromit

Pics:

Mexican food + BBQ + Bishop's house = delicious
The bautichanga! Eduardo, a girl in the ward, and a woman named Francisca that the other Elder taught
El Pato restaurant for Elder Preece's birthday!
Elder Preece and I with Eduardo
A dog peed on my shoe and pant leg (I was so close to just punting it)
Gatorade Chicken
Spider-man missionary on a 900-year-old tree






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